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The detractors of the Tea Party haven’t quite reconciled themselves to the fact this is not simply a protest movement. It’s gone past the need for big rallies. People are growing this movement through local organizations and GOTV efforts.

Get over it, RINOs and libs... the Tea Party is here to stay.

Right you are. Often, the media reference the T.E.A Party and the occupy bummers in the same breath, in an attempt to equate the two.

In my estimation, this is no accident. They know darn well that the majority of Americans were/are impresses with and drawn to T.E.A party principles and turned off by the occupy crowd. By trying to put the T.E.A party on the same level as occupy, they hope to negate and minimalize its effectiveness.

The libs always use every weapon at their disposal, and occupy is serving a purpose that few on the left, and perhaps the right, even comprehend.

The Republicans have forgotten the past. Maybe Mitt is counting on the Mormons?

2004: the base strategy
In 2000, Bush ran as a “compassionate conservative,” reaching out to moderates and seeking a large number of votes from the middle of the political spectrum. But in 2004, Rove and others on the campaign turned to a fairly radical strategy of focusing on increasing turnout from the party's Conservative base. (snip)

So what did he do in 2004? …

I don't think we can overstate this mobilization of the individual churches. Never happened before. Vast sort of untapped source of political energy in this country.

The evangelicals didn't just come on board for him: They were campaigning; they were at the events; they were the poll volunteers; they were making the phone banks, the phone calls. You know, that's how you win elections. It was good old grassroots, door-knocking politics, but they tapped this group and organized it in a way that just had never been done to that extent before.

Religious conservatives, if they wanted to get into politics, [used to get] involved with Ralph Reed and his Christian Coalition. No more. You're doing it right through your church. The Christian Coalition had no important effect on this election at all. It was all about your local Christian church. That turned out to be the rallying point.

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/architect/rove/2004.html

The detractors of the Tea Party haven’t quite reconciled themselves to the fact this is not simply a protest movement. It’s gone past the need for big rallies. People are growing this movement through local organizations and GOTV efforts.

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